Reply To: Traditional Spelling of Cambridge (MA) for ketubah?

Thanks for all the advice and help.

My local rabbi didn’t know, he’s not from Cambridge. He did know enough to tell me that it was not a simply transliterated spelling.

I called a rabbi who works in Cambridge, and got an answer, but it just didn’t look right. There seemed to be an extra vav between the dalet and the shin.

Eventually called the Bet-Din in Boston, figuring they know how to spell it, since they put it on so many documents and gittin.

Kuf – Ayin – Mem – Bet – Raish – Yod – Daled – Shin does the trick – it is the traditional spelling, not precisely transliterated.

I was typesetting my own ketubah, so no one had read it beforehand.

Anyway, it worked – the wedding came off without a . . . er, rather, with a hitch.

shalom u’vracha,

-rsr-